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| Notice: GeekPress is back up and running, thanks to Paul! It's still a not-so-serious tech news blog, but the format is significantly looser. Diana, having given up programming for philosophy, has her own philosophical blog NoodleFood. More of her work can be found at DianaHsieh.com. |
| Movies Show Quick Magnetic Flips |
| 2:03:18 am mst / 20 January 2001 found by paul / filed in science / source Physical Review Focus 60 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| A Canadian scientist has used a special microscope with ultrafast (picosecond!) temporal resolution to show the flipping of individual domains in magnetic media. The research may be used to help design more efficient magnetic storage media such as hard drives. The article includes links to some of the movie clips. |
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| Duke Nukem on screenshot search and destroy |
| 8:52:59 am mst / 20 January 2001 found by paul / filed in games / source Register 56 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Game developer 3D Realms plans harsh restrictions on the use of screenshots for the upcoming game Duke Nukem Forever. They wish to clamp down on unofficial strategy guides that use unauthorized screenshots to illustrate their points (thus increasing sales for the official strategy guide). There's also a discussion of the controversial licensing agreement which forbids websites from using Duke Nukem logos and trademarks "in a derogatory or defamatory manner, or in any negative context". The company claims that this won't be used to censor critical reviews of the game. |
| The side story on the Pokemon trademark dispute between Nintendo and self-styled "psychic" Uri Geller is also amusing! What goes around comes around... |
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| Identity thieves become more sophisticated |
| 9:03:56 am mst / 20 January 2001 found by paul / filed in security / source USA Today 121 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Identity thieves have come up with a few more strategies to take advantage of lax security by online merchants. The article explains some of their techniques. |
| As usual, the main security problems aren't primarily technical but instead due to human error or laziness. |
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| How to bypass web content filtering programs |
| 10:34:30 am mst / 20 January 2001 found by paul / filed in internet / source Register 194 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| It's surprisingly simple. All one needs is the ability to ping, and a hex converter (like this). Click through to find out how. (Thanks to Steven Den Beste for the link via Metafilter.) |
| A related essay explains "How to Obscure Any URL". |
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| Will the real Nupedia please stand up? |
| 10:58:04 am mst / 20 January 2001 found by diana / filed in internet / source ThemeStream 57 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Jimmy Wales clarifies the confusion over Stallman's announcement of GNUpedia, given the existence of the already-well-established open source encyclopedia Nupedia. |
| Paul and I were totally floored at the GNUpedia announcement, as Jimmy Wales and editor-in-chief Larry Sanger are friends of ours. I'm glad that the issue has been resolved so successfully for them! |
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| Will your next notebook be a Mac? |
| 3:05:17 pm mst / 20 January 2001 found by paul / filed in operating systems / source ZDNet 124 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| David Coursey explains why he is going to become "bipolar" -- using a Windows desktop machine at the office, but carrying a Mac laptop on the road. His main argument is that the laptop applications that he uses (Office, IE, Outlook) all have excellent Mac versions. Plus the new Mac laptops are just way too cool... |
| The cool factor is not to be underestimated, as users of other sleek machines like the Sony Vaio know. |
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| MS will admit to Lewinsky affair if charges dropped |
| 7:35:52 pm mst / 20 January 2001 found by paul / filed in humor / source SatireWire 112 hits / 2 comments / 0 e-mails |
| From the article: "Only hours after President Clinton struck a deal to avoid prosecution by admitting he lied in court about Monica Lewinsky, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the entire company will admit to an affair with Lewinsky if the government will drop the case against it, too." |
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